Maps and Map Elements
Shows the boundaries of countries, continents, and states
What are political maps?
These imaginary lines measure distances north and south of the equator and run from east to west
What are lines of latitude?
This area is 90 degrees south.
What is the South Pole?
What is absolute location?
This surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
These are considered distorted depictions of the earth.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
This area is west of the Prime Meridian and east of 180 degrees meridian.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
This theme reflects how humans or animals change our places.
What is human-environmental interactions?
What is the crust?
This tool helps to explain the symbols on a map.
What is a map key/map legend?
The Prime Meridian runs through this city and country.
What is Greenwich, England?
There are four of these in the continental United States.
What are time zones?
This theme is calculated by measuring temperature and precipitation on average.
What is climate?
This is the hottest place inside the planet.
What is the inner core?
This is a directional marker on a map.
What is a compass rose?
This line is located at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
This zone is two hours behind the Central time zone.
What is the Pacific Time Zone?
The location closer to this particular line of latitude means a much warmer climate.
What is the equator?
This is caused by the movement of large continental plates.
What is an earthquake?
Geographers use this to understand the distance between points on a map.
What is the map scale?
This area is located south of 0 degree latitude.
What is the southern hemisphere?
You would do this when moving westward to know the time.
What is add one hour for each time zone?
Neighborhoods would most closely symbolize this theme of geography because many share the same characteristics like culture and language.
What are regions?
What is an archipelago?